Team
Anita Halim Lim is an architect, researcher, and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She studied architecture at Universitas Tarumanagara Jakarta and then received her MA Heritage Studies from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her previous experience includes working as a project architect on the conservation of Jakarta Old Town. She was the co-curator for the exhibition ’Indonesia and the Amsterdam School’ at Museum het Schip Amsterdam (2022-2023) and Erasmus Huis Jakarta (2024-2025). She is also part of the curatorial team at Museum Arsitektur Indonesia. Anita can be reached at a.h.lim@uva.nl
David Duindam is an Assistant Professor of Colonial Heritage and the Shoah in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam. He is board member of Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture (AHM) and coordinates the BA programme Literary and Cultural Analysis. His monograph Fragments of the Holocaust investigates the postwar history of the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater and deportation center that currently houses the National Holocaust Museum. He coordinated the European research network “Digital Memory of the Shoah,” and organized the international conference “Materialities of Postcolonial Memory.” His current work deals with the entanglement of Holocaust and colonial memories in Indonesia. David can be reached at d.a.duindam@uva.nl
Rixt Woudstra is an Assistant Professor in Architectural History, at the University of Amsterdam, and specialised in colonial architecture and building materials in the early twentieth century. Recent publications include Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company (Bloomsbury, 2025) and ‘Transactional Spaces: Currency in the Imperial Built Environment’. co-edited with Michael Faciejew. She is currently Co-Editor in Chief of Architecture Beyond Europe Journal, and serves as Co-Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History. She completed her Ph.D. in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture at MIT. Rixt can be reached at r.l.woudstra@uva.nl
Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on processes of marginalization, center-periphery relations, and (in)visibility. From 2018 to 2024, she led the European Research Council-funded project Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World. Her publications include The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (Palgrave, 2014) and the Open Access edited volumes Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care (Palgrave, 2024, with Pamila Gupta, Sarah Nuttall and Hanneke Stuit) and Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World (Brill 2025, with Tjalling Valdés-Olmos). Esther can be reached at e.peeren@uva.nl